Moving-picture film.



G. E. DRESSLBR & I. W. ULLMAN.

MOVING PICTURE HLM.

APPLIOATION FILED SEPT. 10, 1908.. 1,073,41 Patented Sept. 16, 1913.

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Application led September 10, 1,908. Serial No. 452,401.

1/ o all whom 'it may concern.'

Be it known that We, CHARLES E. Danss- Lun and ISAAC W. ULLMAN, both citizens of the United States and residents of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new. and useful Improvements in Moving-Picture Films, of which the following is a specification.

Our present invention relates to an 1mprovement in moving picture films and has the advantage of furnishing a film which can be used in existing machines without modification and without change in manipulation and which film is so devised that the rewind operation is utilized to exhibit a further series of ictures and is not wasted as is the case witli the ordinary film.

These are some of the advantages'secured by our improved film of which a d1agrammatic representation of, one form thereof 1s shown in the drawing. v

The drawing exhibits a fragment 1 of such a film which so far 'as materialsV are concerned may be made of the ordinary materials and may have the usual sprocket openings 2 along its edges. Likewise the film has a longitudinally extending series of p next ap pictures but differs from the ordlnary lm in having a plurality of such series arran ed side-by-side and dis osed upside-down re ative to each other. hus the particular lm shown has two series of pictures 1 to 17 and 1 to 17 "of which the pictures 1 to 17 are :ppside-down relative to the pictures 1 to 1 y The articular lateral and up and down dimenslons of the picturesshown is not to be taken as essential, sincefwhile the particular form of the ictures 1, 2, 3, etc. is of the upright sort, t e same can be and in fact will usually be of greater dimension horizontally than vertically. Moreover it is not essential to the utility of the film thatl both series of pictures should be either upright or non-upright pictures, since as will ar leach series is exhibited independent y. Thus the lowerend 1a of the film shown will be attached to the proper wind-on reel and the series of pictures 1 to 17 exhibited, it being understood that thero tical devices will be centered (although this 1s not essential) relative to said serles of pictures 1 to 17 whereas the 'other 'series 17' to 1 will be cut-out, so far as being proJected upon the screen is concerned, by an opaque plate or slide adjusted to cover this part of the film. The series of pictures 1 to 17 having been exhibited, it will follow that the film will have been completely wound on the wind-on reel with the picture No. 1 innermost and the last picture of the series outermost. In other words to exhibit the same set of pictures,'the film would have to be rewound to get at picture No. l. This is the condition wlth the ordinary lm having one series of pictures and results in wasting all the time required to rewind the films. It is this time which is saved by the present improved lm, whereby a new series of pictures is shown on the rewind. `This series of pictures onthe old style film would have to be shown on a second film which the present film dispenses with by combining it with the other film. For this purpose the second series of pictures is located side-byside with the first series but has its first picture begin-where the other series of pictures ends. Moreover the pictures inthe two series are relatively upside-down. Thus 1n operating the present film on the rewind, same is taken out of the machine and what was originall the wind-on reel is placed in position to unction as the delivery reel. Finally what'was the end of the film so far as the first series of pictureswas concerned is now made the beginning of the film and is attached toa wind-on reel. i

The opaque slide or screen previously referred to having been adjusted to cut out the pictures'l to 17 andthe film having been set in motion it follows that the pictures l to 17 will nowvbe exhibited in proper order on the screen, said exhibition taking place during what amounts to the rewind of the formerly exhibited series of pictures 1 to 17.

In addition to the advantages above pointed out, it will be apparent that the improved @LA l A I n1,073,411'

of pctl/rres runninglengthwise offtlie'lm, .,en'es to the fore 0in specification in and ongside it another seri ofgpiojture's` presence of two su scrl ing witnesses.

also runmnr len hwise of the film but in f l CHARLES E. DRESSLER. the reverse irectlon, the pictures of the two ISAAC W. ULLMAN.

series being up-sde down relatively to v-eavch Witnesses:

other. v ARTHUR G. WHYTE In testimony whereof, we have signed our` E.' A. HARDWICK. 

